Julius von Bismarck
Sensing Oceans
MIT Museum, Cambridge
Massachusetts, USA
Sep 30, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027

MIT Museum Presents Sensing Oceans, an Exhibition that Explores the Ways We Can Understand the Ocean Beyond the Reach of Our Senses.

Exhibiting works that range from autonomous vehicles and sonar images to immersive artistic installations and robots that mimic fish, Sensing Oceans presents pieces from the MIT Museum’s collections in conversation with contemporary scientific and artistic practices. Together, these works explore how our knowledge is assembled from the sensory data of sound, light, space, temperature, and pressure; and how extending our knowledge, via technology and attention to the natural world, better equips us to understand and preserve an ecosystem that is deeply symbiotic with our own.